I was at Camp Perry when the NRA held its first National Defense Match event. There we were playing with the strange mess that is the NDM course on Rodriguez range with the NRA National High Power Championships going on simultaneously over on Viale range.

The NDM was created to encourage new shooting sports participation. The bitter irony completely lost on the NDM organizers and the NRA as a whole is that the NRA National High Power Championships used to be so well attended that both Rodriguez and Viale were needed to conduct the entire event, each with six large relays. Now, the entire championships can be held in four relays on Viale alone.

So the genius plan to promote gun ownership now is a bunch of goofballs stumbling around and open carrying at Starbucks and the Alamo. Great…